Indian Jewelry or India Jewellery, Kundan jewelry.

authenticity. Some silversmith makes Kundan jewels in silver, replacing gold with the classic of silver.

This is a very native design which comes with a blend of semi opaque crystals (Kundan) plus gold, silver and other precious metals. India Kundan jewelry designs have a deep ethnic and traditional flavor, jewels would adorn their whole households including the servants) and, importantly, the great temples.

They have different designs applied such as animal, floral, lunar and solar. In certain parts of India Kundan with fruit and vegetable forms are created. In other 

parts of India a Mughal inspired art is made. This items are created as rakhras (worn on the forehead), necklaces, bracelets, bangles, anklets, earrings and amulets. This items are made for several parts of the body, all together sixteen types of body decoration called solah shringar.

This jewels

were used since long time as body decoration showing luxurious lifestyles in Rajasthan, the largest state of India. It looks good and is a real eye catcher which brought the copycats and cheap items to the market for quick money. If you but Kundan items check carefully for authentic pieces. Kundan is one of the oldest precious items making technique in India. In present days its very popular in the fashion

Indian bridal Jewelry

is something, which makes a marriage really sparkling. There is a wide range of bridal jewelry works and designs made for this special moment which maybe only come once in a lifetime so it needs something very special. The valuable family gold keeps on passing from one generation to the next. Families who can afford it hold the gold for decades that gives a large variety of styles over the years.

Keeping historical family jewels over hundreds of years is not only happen in India but also elsewhere. The interesting point is to see this wide variety with its old style elegance and the intricate skill of the old masters who created this antique bangles, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, nose rings, pendants, toe rings, rings, anklets and others, as women's fashion accessories and weddings and formal gatherings, or just to look good when going out. To that end, hundreds of jewelers were permanently employed by temples. The Brihadishvara Temple in Thanjavur, for example, built by the powerful Chola ruler Rajaraja I, has eleventh century inscriptions carved on the walls detailing the gem experts' many classifications for pearls, diamonds and rubies.

When the jewel filled treasuries became goals for northern invaders, the temples added fort-like walls, most notably around the hugely wealthy Ranganatha devotees pay to obtain a private viewing of a deity in his or her richest outfit at a temple at Sringangam. Even today, fine jewels continues to be commissioned for the godsand.

Handcrafted unique jewels from India

can be expensive since handcrafted pieces are always unique, its difficult to put a realistic price tag onto it. Art jewelers who create items as an art object may charge a multiple what usually would be paid for a conventional piece including similar gems and materials.

Every time when they put "art or collection" as an attribute have the alarm bell ring since this almost always indicate high prices by expensive attributes. So be careful when buy handcraft or art in India and elsewhere. But in general jewelers offer good quality for affordable prices. Whether this are anklets, earrings, necklace, rings and more, in any case

be careful fakes are plenty.

Since most shops display items with somehow an ethnic jewelry style background it could be sometimes difficult to make a buy decision. One of the parameter for a good decision must always be to bargain on the price, actually this is not only in India, this is everywhere since the seller usually mark up the price for a about a sum he or she thinks a customer will try to bring it down anyway. Don’t be shy, be tough, its your money, even just walk out from the shop when you demand is not satisfied, usually they will run after you and try again to negotiate. Items with an antique touch could also be a good idea to look after. Antique costume items are quite unique, it might just be the right exotic piece you are looking for.

Beside of Indian fashion jewelry

are totaram, khazana, meena, Rajasthan, tanishq and other variants of traditional design and beauty,

also pearl items from India are quite popular. Items in India sometimes are different from others made for export markets such as the middle east and the Arab Peninsular. But one thing is for sure gemstone jewels from India always looks good and has a long lasting value in terms of materials and design. Designer items are a new breed sometimes as 22kt items, ornaments and similar.

India gold jewelry has a long tradition

and Kundan jewelry is probably one of the most popular in the country and not only there since this is something special. These are traditional antique Moghul era designs which never lost their beauty.

Fashionable items with a long tradition and they simply look good, that’s the reason why the people buy them. Made from precious stones and materials such as gold, silver and precious stones it already made their marks in the epics of Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

There are also various texts such as the code of Manu that defines the basic parameter for apprentices who want to become goldsmiths. The fact out of this is India has been leading exporter of jewelry since centuries and since the Arabs got oil money they became a major buyer of heavy jewelry. Its somehow similar to Turkish taste in in resent years new Russia also became a interesting export market.

There is only one problem with all this jewelry from India, the quality is often not good, only high end pieces of jewels reach top quality but about 80% don’t.

India is a country were body decoration

has a very high value that’s the motive to buy diamonds jewelry but not only, is a almost equal reason to buy jewelry to secure value over time. As someone in New York or elsewhere invest in stocks plenty of Indian people invest in precious materials and items to secure value over time.

To adorn the body is nothing new but Indian people have probably the spectrum where to put the decoration, its head, fingers, ankles, nose, ears, rings, pendants and so on. All has a dual use, first decoration, second value and third both, this are ornaments of beauty. With many people it also has a religious component in it, there is also plenty of India gold plated jewelry.

or jaria sets the stones. Interestingly jewelry enamel technique is widely used, which is rather different to jewelry produced elsewhere where enamel used in jewelry design and manufacturing is rather rare.

Current trends are new age and back to the roots,

new age is ‘western designs’ back to the roots is back to the Moguls, which has its charm and looks great.

Gold Plated India Jewellery used as body decoration and somewhere in a vault at home the yellow metal is stored as an investment for not so good times. If people can’t afford pure gold bracelets, pendants and necklaces they buy gold plated jewellery. It looks the same and is only marginally lighter.

Gold has a long tradition in south Asia and when a woman get married they wrap her up in gold glinting and sparkling just like Christmas tree if the family has the money.

Great shining jewellery is the dream of any Indian girls and women, actually not only almost all people like that and it’s a valuable asset for the future and it looks good. Gold plated jewellery is very common and often used instead of pure gold because it simply means lower prices by looking the same.

Jewelry from India

is also a excellent souvenir to bring home when on a trip in India, what about Kundan jewelry which is beautiful traditional Indian jewellery with some gold and other material, this is probably the most artistic jewelry from the country.
When buying gold items it always needs a careful look on the item since in many countries people dilute the yellow metal to squeeze out more profit, it is not often the case but it happen.

In Thailand e.g. they dilute the metal with copper and other metals that’s the reason all Thai gold is never really bright yellow shiny it always has a shade into the red spectrum, this method of cheating people is often used because most people don’t know the difference.

For expensive India gold and Indian gold plated jewellery

 items, let’s say over $ 2000,- have a independent lab inspecting the items and don’t believe anything the salesperson tells you. Indian sales people are master in creating a positive sales atmosphere letting you feel good to finish the deal more easy.

The parameter to define this is the Karat, its not carat, carat is for gems, karat is for gold. The most valuable gold is 24 karat but since this this metal version is relatively soft most people opt for 18 karat or even lower such as 14k, this number indicate the ration of gold parts used in the mixture. 18k gold has less parts of gold in the mixture to have a harder and stable item.
For fashion jewelry gold plated is often used via some king of electrolysis where the item is slowly covered with thin layer of gold. There are other methods, where the yellow metal is sandwiched together with a other metal or metals.

Jewelry India is typical Asian gold jewellery,

only people from the Arabian Peninsular use similar amounts gold for all kind

of items, strolling through a Arabian gold bazaar in Saudi Arabia, Dubai or elsewhere in the Gulf region is always some kind of a optical adventure. They sell plenty of pretty gold items in many forms and different values. One of the most common form is jewelry using white or yellow gold and diamonds. The yellow metal also fits well together with rubies, they call that gold ruby.

Gold plated jewellery is less used in China,

they prefer Chinese jade jewels, the more translucent and greener the better and the more valuable, actually excellent jade is often higher priced than gold.